well, i actually found this;
http://ca-linux.org/?p=58
hope its helpful to others.
its a bash script doing dd, but in a more friendly way.
On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>>> I'm actually just needing to create files of various sizes, not to be
>> used in Xen tho.
>>>> More for testing I/O chars of various thing.
>> Just recall your last dd command back to the command line (ctl-r dd)
> and
> edit the number you put at the end for the 'count' argument.
>> --
> Les Mikesell
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